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Histamine occurs along the whole gastrointestinal tract of different animal species with remarkable quantitative variations according to the species and the different areas of the gut. The amine is mainly contained in the mast cells but also in the so called ECL (enterochromaffin-like) cells. Its content varies, in the human gut mucosa, between about 7 micrograms per g of the large intestine and approximately 17 micrograms per g in the gastric corpus (Lorenz et al., 1973).
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Bertaccini, G., Coruzzi, G. (1984). Histamine and the Digestive Functions. In: Bennett, A., Velo, G. (eds) Mechanisms of Gastrointestinal Motility and Secretion. NATO ASI Series, vol 80. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4853-5_8
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